Prevalence and effects of menstrual disorders on quality of life of female undergraduate students in Makerere University College of health sciences, a cross sectional survey

Table 4 Effects of dysmenorrhea, pre-menstrual syndrome symptoms and intermenstrual bleeding on mean QOL BREF domain scores

QOL BREF DOMAINS	Dysmenorrhea			Premenstrual symptoms			Intermenstrual bleeding
QOL BREF DOMAINS	No (mean QOL score,95%CI)	yes, (mean QOL score,95%CI, Effect size)	P value^*	No (mean QOL score,95%CI)	Yes (mean QOL score,95%CI, Effect size)	P value^*	No (mean QOL score,95%CI)	Yes (mean QOL score,95% CI, Effect size)	P value^*
Physical	62.8, 60.4–65.2	62.0, 60.1–65.9, 0.065	0.601^*	60.9,54.5–67.3	62.4, 60.9–63.9, 0.120	0.623^*	62.1,60.6–63.7	64.5,59.2–69.9, 0.199	0.395^*
Psychological	60.4, 57.9–62.9	56.2, 55.1–57.2, 0.377	< 0.001 ^*	62.0, 56.3–67.7	57.4,56.2–58.6, 0.447	0.057^*	57.8, 56.6–58.9	56.6, 51.4–61.8, 0.115	0.587^*
Social	59.7,57.1–62.3	51.6, 50.2–53.1, 0.696	< 0.001 ^*	56.9, 48.4–65.3	50.4, 53.0–55.8, 0.581	0.404^*	54.8, 53.4–56.3	51.4,45.7–57.2, 0.280	0.204^*
Environmental	50.3, 49.2–51.5	45.9, 44.2–47.5, 0.504	< 0.001 ^*	58.8, 53.3–64.4	46.7, 45.6–47.8, 1.212	< 0.001	47.7, 46.5–48.9	44.9, 39.5–50.3, 0.2611	0. 201^*

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